"Calm spaces gives you this feeling of lightness and therefore you don't have the pressure of time. You don't look your watch. You feel like you're on a bubble."

My thoughts are this:How is it that a completely minimal space such as the physical structures Claudio and Guiliana create and a heavily-stitched piece (as in my work) evoke the same calming effect for me?What calms your mind?How do you balance yourself?Making breadStitchingWalkingEating RunningSleepingDaydreamingReadingStaring out a windowMeditationYogaNothingI wonder what you think about how you calm yourself.Feel free to share with me. C

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Balance takes many forms from foraging for land treasures to use to dye cloth to the very simple act of getting up each day and greeting it by chanting a daily blessing for the earth. Newly moved to New Mexico, I begin the day, actually much like I did when I lived in Tennessee with a walk outside, cup of tea or coffee in hand, to breathe in deeply and offer thanks for this day. Here especially in New Mexico, my thanks are huge for the sky and the incredible light that this land gives...try to end the day in the same way so that whatever has caused a tilt in the day, I close the circle of the day with the same ending as the beginning of the day. I guess that is my balance ritual. Never thought about it much except to say that once my children were raised, and we retired, I have had the time to honor the days of my life in this way so now it is an instinctive part of my life.

I feel calm and at peacewalking on the beachsearching for sea glass, driftwood and other beach findsstitchinggardening and wandering around the gardenbeing silently alone getting totally in to a book takes me another zone

Things that calm me:PrayerLying on the ground and looking at the skyRain on the roof while lying in bedThe beachBeing warmGood relationships

But truthfully, my mind isn't very still. Its active all the time. Its why I make things and surround myself with people I love. It makes me happy but not necessarily the most calm person to be around. ;)

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Christine Mauersberger is a Creative Workforce Fellow. The Creative Workforce Fellowship is a program of the Community Partnership for Arts and Culture. The Fellowship program is supported by the residents of Cuyahoga County through a public grant from Cuyahoga Arts & Culture.